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artist
Tina Notaro
Tina Notaro was born in Milwaukee Wisconsin.
She attended Boston
University at the age of
17. In order to explore other modes of education beyond academia and she left
the United States
a year later. Hungry to learn from other cultures and to gain life
experience, she traveled internationally for 16 years. During these years she
stayed for extended periods in the British Isles, Belize,
Holland, Italy,
Germany, Spain, Israel,
India, Myanmar, Laos,
Thailand, Sri Lanka, Nepal,
Australia, and South Africa.
Between 1990 and 2005 she painted
murals, constructed sculptural installations, participated in performances,
and helped produce collaborative, multi-media events, in a number of
countries. During this period she also periodically attended the University of Wisconsin Madison where she studied
metal arts. She fabricated and traded jewelry and gems while traveling. From
1996 to 1998 she studied gemology at the Gemological Association and Gem
Testing Laboratory of Great
Britain.
In 1999 she worked for a year as
the manager of the Colored Gemstone Laboratory at Tiffany and Company and
constructed a house in Ireland
between 2000 and 2004. She
expanded her knowledge of tools and sculptural techniques during the years
she spent in the construction of her house.
Fully committed to sculpture as a
life path and to the pursuit of academic studies, she entered the Bachelors
of Fine Arts program at the University
of Arizona in 2006. As
an art student she has explored numerous sculptural media. Her forms and
installations often reference the process and experience of expanded states
of consciousness. Her current body of work continues to reflect the
maturation and synthesis of years of cultural, artistic and spiritual inquiry,
and draws deeply from the
expansiveness of her uncommon and adventurous life.
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